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Sep 3, 2025
The German synodal way project is about to enter a decisive phase.
Readers who haven’t been following the initiative’s every twist and turn might be surprised by this....
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Jul 31, 2025
The Vatican announced Thursday that St. John Henry Newman will soon be declared a Doctor of the Church.
The Holy See press office said July 31 that Pope Leo XIV had...
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Jul 22, 2025
People are sometimes surprised to learn that there are Christians living in Gaza.
When television news bulletins reported July 17 on the deaths of three people at Holy...
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Jul 10, 2025
The Vatican’s doctrinal office gave the green light Wednesday to devotion associated with alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Slovakia.
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of...
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Jul 9, 2025
The almost 10,000-word document is written in synodalese, a language in which few Catholics are fluent, so we have a translation for you.
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Jul 3, 2025
How many new Catholic priests will be ordained in Europe in 2025? It’s a simple question, but difficult to answer, given the continent consists of more than 40 nations, with...
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May 16, 2025
The U.K. government said Tuesday it was not considering any exceptions to a new mandatory reporting law, including in the sacramental seal of confession.
In a May 13 letter, the...
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Mar 19, 2025
A ceremony known as the Rite of Election, typically held around the First Sunday of Lent, offers an early glimpse of how many people will likely become Catholic in any given...
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Mar 17, 2025
No one — not even a liturgist — can unerringly predict the future. How many Catholics attending Mass in 1962 knew that the Roman Missal issued that year would be the last...
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Jan 10, 2025
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin will consecrate Friday a new Catholic church at the traditional site of Jesus’ baptism in Jordan.
The cardinal...
